
The Latest in Have Faith Haiti


Michigan Colleges Presents: Mitch Albom & Friends
Michigan Colleges Alliance (MCA), in partnership with Mitch Albom, is pleased to announce the 3rd annual Mitch Albom and Friends – an incredible night of stories, laughter, music, and fun – live from Madonna University’s spectacular new Welcome Center. The program...
‘Next person’ book launch to help kids who have no one else
PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI – As I finish this, I am in a vehicle about to pull up to our orphanage. I will likely be greeted by a happy rush of children, whom I haven’t seen in a month, jumping and squealing and asking if I brought them anything. It is the best way to...
Don’t judge us for President Donald Trump’s words
To the children of our Haitian orphanage: When you do something wrong, you have to say you’re sorry. We teach you that. But sometimes, when you grow up, you have to say you’re sorry when someone else does something wrong. My hope is you didn’t hear this news. But...
Strangers in strange land give new view of humanity’s ugly side
This summer, I had eight eyes. Two were my own, and six belonged to three young men from Haiti, who were raised at an orphanage I operate there and were making their first trip ever to another country — America — to work as camp counselors. Siem, the oldest, is stocky...
Chika’s Story
A fight to cure the incurable: A Haitian child’s struggle with rare brain cancer inspires strangers, teaches doctors, and creates an unlikely family.

On the Passing of Chika
It is with a broken heart that I share that our beloved Chika went home to heaven today at 1:43 in the afternoon. She was 7. She went breathing slower and slower until she drifted off like the magical child she was. No morphine. No drama. Just love. She was diagnosed...
No power a reminder of those who do without
I was starting to write this column when the lights went off. The computer died. The heat stopped working, and the house fell silent. I exhaled and threw my head back. I cursed and stomped around. How long this time? Should we bother to call the service providers? Who...Haiti, again, must pick up the pieces
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – They cowered inside the tent, the rain pounding like a million drumsticks, the wind a dragon’s howl. And then, suddenly, the night sky was stark above them. “The roof just blew away,” says a 16 year-old girl, pointing where it used to be,...